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Monday, 26 March 2012

{insert clever title}... erm, "hoop"?

Apologies for the lack of a clever title, and perhaps a bit of a strange post. I had a migraine last night after I'd gone to bed so I haven't had much sleep and the tablets make me a bit "odd" the next day. Add to that an hour in a traffic jam this morning and it leads to one discombobulated Wendy. I'm not entirely sure what discombobulated means, but I like it as a word.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the last of the presents for Jacob... so far. Of course, he will get many, many more but this is what I've made for him for his birth. The cotton reel on the photo above is not a part of the design, but more a way of keeping his identity secret! This is a whacking great 10" hoop and the owl design is taken from Mary Englebright's Stitched so Cute (Yay, another one off the craft book challenge).

The background is a simple white cotton, the applique is from my scrap bag and I added some stitching on his belly. I wrote the wording freehand using my fading fabric pen. It usually fades after about 10 minutes, meaning I have to keep drawing over it again and again. This time, I wrote it in the fading pen to get it right, then went over it lightly with my new Frixon pen so that I could still see the writing when the pen faded. It didn't. It hadn't faded when I presented it to my brother! Talk about sod's law. I stitched the letters with all 6 strands of a variegated thread in a simple back stitch.

The branch was done is stem stitch as were most of the outlines, and the leaves are done in fly stitch.

I finished it off by wrapping the hoop in strips of this lovely Amy Butler print which I think goes well with the colours I used. I added felt to the back using this tutorial from The Trouble With Crafting.

So that's it. No tales of crashing my car this weekend. Just a stinky blocked drain and a microwave that's packed up. Oh the excitement of my life.

19 comments:

It's gorgeous, well done. What a pain in the neck (head in your case!) with the non-fading ink. Of course if you had wanted it to be permanent it would have faded as soon as you turned your back on it!

That is totally adorable - it will look fabulous hanging in the baby's room!

I have a Frixon pen - Nancy got one and I tried it out at her house on a FNSI night - I wrote a naughty word on her ironing board cover and then just ironed it and POOF, it was gone! It worked so well that both Amanda and I got one too!

So cute! You did a great job on this one, I especially love the branch done in the stem stitch! It looks so perfect, I had to spend some time examining it, I thought it was some sort of rope applique. I have ME's Sew Cute book too, but shame on me, haven't made a thing from it yet!

Sandra did write a naughty word on my ironing board with my Frixon pen. You iron it and the ink disappears FOREVER. So, get it back or go visit and pass a hot iron over the area and it will be gone. Promise. I love those pens so much. Also, your little owl. No surprises here, I have that book too, and have yet to do a project from it. It is a lovely little sampler. Jacob's Aunty Wendy is very talented!

Oh, are you going to make a comment? Brilliant! Just to let you know, I will reply to your comment in an email, unless you are a no-reply blogger, then I can't reply - sorry! If you are a no-reply comment blogger (never had an email in response to a blog comment? You are a no-reply blogger), to change it, go to your profile and check "show my e-mail address". Simple.Comments are moderated so if you don't see your comment, it doesn't mean I haven't got it!

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I was a cardmaker for many years, but after I got married in April 2010 I decided I wanted to branch out. So far I've delved into the worlds of knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, sewing, jewellery making, felting,spinning, Hardanger, blackwork, candle making and most lately glass work. Hopefully there is more to come!